List of Patents for New Inventions. 287 



Thomas Cobb tlie younger, of Calthrop House, neap 

 Banbury in the county of Oxford, paper-maker, for certain; 

 improvements in the art of making paper in separate sheets, 

 Dec. 4., 



Joseph Manton, of Davles-street, Berkeley-square, Lon- 

 don, gua-niaker, for certain improvements in time-keepers.^ 

 Dec. 5. 



John Williams, of Cornhill in the city of London, sta- 

 tioner, for a new mode of covering and enclosing all kinds 

 of carriages. Dec. 9. 



Mark Laybourn, of Great Driffield in the county of 

 YorJC) mechanic, and RicharJ MilILourn,.of the same place,. 

 gentleman, for an improved roving machine for preparing 

 flax, tow, and wool' for spinning. Dec. 9. 



Charles Grant Viscount de Vaux, of Elizabeth-street, 

 Hans-sqiure, Chelsea, for a machine which will show the 

 latitude and longitude at sea, serving also for weighing anr 

 object, for measuring space, or the course of a ship and 

 time, showing and keeping account upon dials and upon 

 cosmographical columns which are part of such machine, 

 and also showing the lee-way of a ship ; part of which ma- 

 chine may also be applied to other useful purposes. Dec. 9. 



James Breck, of Newcastk-under-Lyne in the county 

 of Stafford, ironmonger, for a new method of manufactur- 

 ing iron straps or girdles into various articles, as a substitute 

 for those now composed of hemp. Dec. 16. 



George Remington, of Queen-square, Bloomsbury, in the 

 county of Middlesex, cabinet-maker, for certain improve^ 

 ments on tables and couches. Dec] 6. 



John Williams, of Cornhill in the city of London, sta- 

 tioner, for a method of preserving the equilibrium, and pre- 

 venting all kinds of carriages and vehicles from overturning- 

 Dec. 19. 



William Juniper,, of the parish of Saint Saviour, South- 

 wark, engine-maker, for certain improved rolls for punching 

 of tire, and drawing hoops for the stocks of wheels, and a 

 iegment for sweeping and setting the same. Dec. I9. 



Samuel Salter, of Watford in the county of Herts, malt- 

 ftter, for an apparatus for the purpose of drying malt, hops,. 

 or any kind of grain. Dec. J9. 



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